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Minembwe under crossfire : FARDC and Burundian soldiers attack Banyamulenge villages

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, February 8, 2026 – Heavy fighting was reported on Sunday in several localities in the Minembwe highlands, in the Fizi territory of South Kivu province in

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Burundi : thousands of Congolese refugees left behind, while some teachers return to the DRC

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura/Ruyigi, February 5, 2026 – On Thursday, February 5, sixty-five Congolese refugee teachers, residing in the commercial capital Bujumbura, a few kilometers from the city of Uvira,

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Burundi–DRC : Gatumba–Kavimvira border remains closed, hopes dashed

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, February 2, 2026 – The hopes of many Congolese and Burundians, who were awaiting the reopening of the Gatumba–Kavimvira border crossing, have been brutally dashed. Burundian

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Masisi : more than 200 dead in landslide at artisanal mine in Rubaya

Goma, January 31, 2026 – A tragedy has struck the artisanal mining site of Rubaya, in the Masisi territory of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 200 miners lost

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South Kivu : the battle of Point Zero revives the highlands front

Bukavu, January 31, 2026 – The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), supported by the Burundi National Defense Force (FDNB) and Wazalendo militias, recaptured the strategic location

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Buhumuza : 22 Congolese refugees die in a single day at Busuma camp

SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, January 31, 2026 – The humanitarian situation at the Busuma refugee camp in Buhumuza province, eastern Burundi, has reached a critical level. Twenty-two Congolese refugees lost

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South Kivu : 4 dead and 11 wounded in a grenade explosion in Sange

SOS Médias Burundi Bukavu, January 30, 2026 – In South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, four people were killed and eleven others wounded on Thursday, January 29,

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Buhumuza : Busuma camp in shock, hundreds of Congolese refugees die in undignified conditions

SOS Médias Burundi Buhumuza, January 29, 2026 – Since December 2025, more than 300 Congolese refugees, including many children and the elderly, have died in the Busuma camp in Buhumuza

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Busuma : attempts to return to DR Congo, Congolese refugees arrested and forcibly returned to the camp

SOS Médias Burundi Ruyigi, January 28, 2026 — In recent days, several Congolese refugees from the Busuma camp, located in the district of Ruyigi, Buhumuza province, in eastern Burundi, have

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Ituri : 25 civilians killed in ADF attack in Irumu

SOS Médias Burundi Irumu, January 26, 2026 – Militiamen from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) again attacked the village of Apakolu, in the Walese Vonkutu chiefdom of Irumu territory in